Orchard country

摘要

Just outside the village of Kingsbury I, Episcopi, overlooking the flat lands of I central Somerset, Burrow Hill stands like Neolithic monument-Solsbury in miniature, topped by a single sycamore. You can see it for miles, and when you do, you know you're in orchard country For around the base of the hill curve rows of apple trees, and beyond them, the landscape is composed of squares and blocks of trees, thousands upon thousands of them in varied shades of green. On the Ordnance Survey map, you see little squares and rectangles filled with tiny green crosses, signifying orchard or vineyard And as you drive from village to village, you pass through endless neat rows of trunks and the tousled but regulated canopy of manmade woodland.